Biden meets with Japan’s Kishida ahead of G-7 summit in Hiroshima

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President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Thursday and greeted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida by saying, “When our countries stand together, we stand stronger” — a sign of how the economic and national security alliance between the two countries has grown. The US president began his remarks by noting that Kishida said during a January Washington visit that the world faced one of the “most complex” security environments in recent history. “I couldn’t agree with you more,” Biden said. “We very much welcome that the cooperation has evolved in leaps and bounds,” Kishida told Biden about Japan’s relationship with...